EP3622557A1 - Projecteur couleur à deux écrans émissifs - Google Patents
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Definitions
- a color image can be decomposed into several sub-images, each of a single color, called chromatic components.
- a color image is preferably decomposed into three sub-images.
- the invention relates to the field of color image projection systems, in particular color video projection systems.
- projection systems carry out the projection of a color image, by separate projection of each of the chromatic components of this image. Projections are said to be separate because they are separated in time or space.
- chromatic components preferably correspond to each of the three primary colors in additive synthesis: red, green and blue.
- Figure 1 schematically illustrates a known embodiment of a projector 100 sequential type.
- the operation of the projector 100 is based on the use of a coloring wheel 110 with filters. It is a rotating disk, whose surface is occupied by three transmission spectral filters 1121, 1122, 1123, respectively transmitting blue, red and green.
- a source 120 of white light emits a continuous signal of constant amplitude.
- the coloring wheel 110 is disposed on the optical path of the light beam emitted by the source 120, and turns on itself to take successively three positions.
- the light beam emitted by the source 120 passes through the coloring wheel 110 at a first spectral filter 1121 transmitting blue only.
- this beam passes through the coloring wheel 110 at a second spectral filter 1122 transmitting red only.
- this beam passes through the coloring wheel 110 at a third spectral filter 1123 transmitting the green only.
- the light beam at the output of one of these spectral filters passes through a relay lens 130, and arrives on a reflective micro-screen 140 such as a matrix of micromirrors known as DMD (for the English “Digital Micromirror Device”). .
- a reflective micro-screen 140 such as a matrix of micromirrors known as DMD (for the English “Digital Micromirror Device”).
- the relay lens makes it possible to collimate the light beam emitted by the source 120 of white light, and can therefore also be situated upstream of the coloring wheel 110.
- Reflective micro-screen 140 receives a substantially uniform signal in space.
- Each micro-mirror of the reflective micro-screen 140 receives a portion of this signal, and is pivotable between a position in which said signal portion is returned to a projection optical system 150, and a position in which said signal portion is returned to another direction. From these two positions, different levels of gray can be formed by varying a proportion of time during which the signal is returned to the projection optical system 150.
- the reflective micro-screen 140 transforms a light beam representative of a uniform image, into a light beam representative of a pixelated image, and into gray levels.
- the reflective micro-screen 140 successively forms different pixelated images in grayscale.
- the frequency of succession of the positions of the coloring wheel 110, and the succession frequency of the images formed by the reflective micro-screen 140, are synchronized together.
- the reflective micro-screen returns, in turn, towards the projection optical system 150, a blue, green then red image, and so on.
- the projector 100 produces a projection of color images, of sequential type.
- a disadvantage of this embodiment is, however, its bulk.
- the spectral filters composing the coloring wheel 110 each have a transmission coefficient of about 30%, which greatly limits the energy efficiency of the projector 100.
- An object of the present invention is to provide a color image projector, which has a small footprint.
- Another object of the present invention is to provide a color image projector, which offers a good energy efficiency.
- an image projection system configured to implement a color projection, and comprising:
- a first emissive display matrix device configured to output a first and a second color component of a color image, and including a first pixel array in which each pixel is adapted to transmit at the color lengths; wave associated with said first color component and at the wavelengths associated with said second color component; and
- a second emissive display matrix device configured to emit a third color component of the color image.
- the invention therefore proposes to completely avoid the concept of wavelength filtering, and instead use emissive display matrix devices directly supplying signals at the desired wavelengths.
- the invention also proposes replacing a light source, and an image forming matrix element, distinct from each other, by emissive display matrix devices performing both the light emission and the light emission functions. image formation.
- This congestion is all the more reduced, as a single emissive display matrix device allows, according to the invention, to provide two of the three color components of a color image.
- the solution proposed here differs from an obvious solution, which would have consisted in using a trichromatic emissive display device consisting of a matrix of macropixels, each macro-pixel consisting of at least one blue pixel, one green pixel and a red pixel.
- the projection may be entirely sequential (the image projection system emits in turn each of the three color components of an image), or partially sequential (the first emissive display matrix device). emits in turn the first and second color components of an image, while the second emissive display matrix device emits the third color component of the same image).
- the projection at least partially sequential, gives access to higher display resolutions.
- all the pixels of each of the two emissive display matrix devices may have the same emission spectrum, which simplifies their manufacture.
- the first emissive display device does not consist either of macro-pixels each comprising two types of pixels, a first type for the transmission of the first color component, and a second type for the transmission of the second component. chromatic. On the contrary, it comprises a matrix of pixels in which each pixel participates in the formation of the first and second color components of the color image. Thus, all the pixels of said matrix may have the same emission spectral characteristics, which gives access to higher display resolutions, and simplifies the manufacture of the first emissive display device.
- the first and second emissive display matrix devices project images corresponding to the different chromatic components of a color image, each of these images being a "grayscale” image, each gray level corresponding to one value. predetermined luminance (if necessary temporally averaged by the eye).
- said first pixel array is comprised of a first array of light emitting diodes, wherein each light emitting diode has an emission spectrum that is dependent on the magnitude of its supply voltage; and the first emissive display matrix device is connected to first control means, configured to supply said light-emitting diodes with respective supply voltages alternately having a first amplitude, associated with the emission of the first chromatic component, and second amplitude, associated with the emission of the second chromatic component.
- the first control means may comprise pulse width modulation units, each light emitting diode of said first matrix being associated with a respective pulse width modulation unit.
- the light-emitting diodes of said first matrix are multi-well quantum diodes, each comprising two types of quantum wells, which differ by a respective associated emission spectrum.
- the light-emitting diodes of said first matrix may be multi-well quantum diodes, each comprising quantum wells of a single type, all associated with the same emission spectrum.
- the light emitting diodes of said first matrix are diodes based on gallium indium nitride (InGaN).
- the second emissive display matrix device comprises a second matrix of light-emitting diodes, based on aluminum-gallium-indium phosphide (InGaAIP).
- InGaAIP aluminum-gallium-indium phosphide
- the first emissive display matrix device is configured for transmitting a green component and a blue component of a color image; and the second emissive display matrix device is configured to emit a red component of said color image.
- the image projection system according to the invention may furthermore comprise beam deflection means arranged to superimpose the optical paths followed by the light signals emitted respectively by the first and by the second emissive display matrix devices.
- the beam deflection means may consist of a dichroic mirror.
- the first emissive display matrix device comprises said first pixel matrix
- the second emissive display matrix device comprises a second pixel array
- each of the first and second pixel arrays is a square or rectangular array of pixels ( s) between 5 mm and 20 mm.
- FIG. 1 illustrates schematically, a sequential type color image projector, according to the prior art
- FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a first embodiment of an image projection system according to the invention
- FIG. 3 illustrates the emission spectra of the first emissive display matrix device of the system of FIG. 2;
- FIGS 4A to 4C schematically illustrate the operation of the system of Figure 2;
- FIG. 5 diagrammatically illustrates the piloting of the first emissive display matrix device of the system of FIG. 2;
- FIG. 6A illustrates the emission spectra of the first emissive display matrix device of a second embodiment of an image projection system according to the invention.
- FIG. 6B illustrates said second embodiment of a system according to the invention.
- Figure 2 schematically illustrates a first embodiment of an image projection system 200, according to the invention.
- the system 200 comprises in particular:
- a first emissive display matrix device 210 comprising a first pixel array
- a second emissive display matrix device 220 comprising a second pixel array.
- the pixels of the first matrix of pixels are distributed according to a square (or rectangular) matrix, of side (s) L (respectively L1, L2 for a rectangular matrix) comprised here between 5 mm and 20 mm.
- These pixels are distributed here according to the same pitch P less than 10 ⁇ , for example equal to 5 ⁇ .
- the first emissive display matrix device 210 and the second emissive display matrix device 220 each form a micro-display.
- the first and second pixel arrays advantageously have the same dimensions, and the same pixel pitch.
- Each of the first and second emissive display matrix devices is adapted to provide illumination of very high light intensity, for example more than 10 3 Cd / m 2 , and even up to 10 7 Cd / m 2 .
- Each pixel of the first pixel, respectively second pixel matrix consists here of a light emitting diode (LED).
- LED light emitting diode
- micro-LEDs These light-emitting diodes may be called micro-LEDs, because of their dimensions of the order of a micrometer (no distribution below 10 ⁇ here).
- the first LED array, of the first emissive display matrix device 210 extends in the plane (xOz) of an orthonormal frame (Oxyz).
- It is configured to emit a light signal 211 that propagates along the axis (Oy) to a dichroic mirror 230.
- the first LED matrix consists of LEDs comprising indium and gallium, in particular LEDs based on gallium-indium nitride (InGaN).
- the different LEDs of the first LED array are identical to each other. In other words, they all have the same dimensions and the same composition.
- these LEDs each comprise structures of two types, enabling them to emit at one or the other wavelength as a function of a supply voltage.
- each of these LEDs is a multi-quantum well LED, comprising multi-quantum wells adapted to emit in the blue, that is to say at a wavelength between 440 nm and 500 nm, and multi-quantum wells adapted to emit in the green, that is to say at a wavelength between 510 nm and 570 nm.
- each of these LEDs comprises two superimposed multi-quantum well structures, which differ in a respective associated emission spectrum.
- each of these LEDs has alternating layers of GaN and InGaN layers, forming quantum wells for charge carriers.
- the concentration of Indium in the InGaN layers has a first value, adapted to a blue emission.
- the indium concentration in the InGaN layers has a second value, suitable for emission in the green.
- the LED When the LED is powered by a first supply voltage having a first amplitude value, non-zero, it is the quantum wells of a first type that are excited, and the LED emits in the green.
- the LED When the LED is powered by a second supply voltage having a second amplitude value, non-zero, it is the quantum wells of a second type which are excited, and the LED emits in the blue.
- FIG. 3 illustrates this phenomenon.
- FIG. 3 illustrates the emission spectra of such an LED (luminous intensity I as a function of wavelength ⁇ ), for said first supply voltage (spectrum 31) and for said second supply voltage (spectrum 32).
- this spectrum 31 may have additional peaks, not exploited by the image projection system 200, located outside the visible spectrum (between 400 nm and 800 nm) and near ultraviolet (about 300 nm). at 400 nm). In any case, it is considered in the following that the spectrum 31 is monochromatic, and corresponds to a monochromatic emission in the green.
- this spectrum 32 may have additional peaks, not exploited by the image projection system 200, located outside the visible spectrum and near ultraviolet.
- the spectrum 32 is monochromatic, and corresponds to a monochromatic emission in blue.
- the first supply voltage is strictly lower than the second supply voltage.
- the difference between these two voltages is for example between 0.5 and 1.5 V.
- the first supply voltage is 4 V
- the second supply voltage is 5 V.
- all the LEDs of the first LED array are powered at each instant by respective supply voltages all having the same amplitude. This amplitude corresponds alternately to the first and the second supply voltage as described above.
- the first LED matrix is adapted to emit:
- a light signal 211B presenting the emission spectrum 32 (see FIG. 4B).
- the light signals 211A and 211B are not emitted simultaneously, but one after the other.
- the light signals 211A and 211B are each formed by the illumination produced by the first LED array of the first emissive display matrix device 210.
- this gray level also corresponds to the light intensity of the beam emitted by the associated LED.
- the light signal 211A has a wavelength spectrum with an emission peak in the green.
- This light signal 211A corresponds to the green component of a color image.
- the light signal 211B has a wavelength spectrum with a blue emission peak.
- This light signal 211B corresponds to the blue component of a color image.
- the second LED array, the second emissive display matrix device 220 extends in the plane (xOy) of the same orthonormal frame (Oxyz).
- It is configured to emit a light signal 221 that propagates along the axis (Oz) to the dichroic mirror 230.
- the second LED matrix consists of LEDs comprising indium and gallium, in particular LEDs based on aluminum-gallium-indium phosphide (InGaAIP).
- the different LEDs of the second LED matrix are identical to each other. In other words, they all have the same dimensions and the same composition.
- the second LED array has an emission spectrum with a red emission peak, i.e., centered on a wavelength between 600 nm and 750 nm.
- this emission spectrum may have additional peaks, not exploited by the image projection system, located outside the visible spectrum and near ultraviolet, for example located in the infrared.
- the second emissive display matrix device 220 provides a monochromatic emission in the red.
- the light signal 221 emitted by the second emissive display matrix device 220 corresponds to a "grayscale" pixelated image formed on the second LED matrix, where each pixel of the image corresponds to a LED of the second LED matrix, and where the gray level of this pixel corresponds to the luminance of the associated LED, and to the light intensity of the beam emitted by said associated LED.
- This light signal 221 corresponds to the red component of a color image.
- the dichroic mirror 230 extends here inclined at 45 ° relative to the axes (Oy) and (Oz), parallel to the axis (Ox).
- the light signal 211 emitted by the first emissive display matrix device passes through the dichroic mirror 230, while the light signal 221 emitted by the second emissive display matrix device is reflected on the dichroic mirror 230.
- the optical paths of the light signal 211 and the light signal 221 coincide.
- the dichroic mirror 230 forms beam deflection means, arranged to superimpose the optical paths followed by the light signals 211 and 221.
- the invention is however not limited to this example, other arrangements of LED arrays can be implemented, the beam deflection means can then include additional optical elements.
- the system 200 here further comprises a projection optical system 240, comprising at least one refractive optics, and configured to form, in a determined focusing plane, an alternately enlarged image of the first and second matrix of LED (depending on whether it is the first or the second emissive display matrix device that emits a light signal).
- a projection optical system 240 comprising at least one refractive optics, and configured to form, in a determined focusing plane, an alternately enlarged image of the first and second matrix of LED (depending on whether it is the first or the second emissive display matrix device that emits a light signal).
- the system 200 transmits, for each of a plurality of color images: a light signal 211A, corresponding to the green component of the color image (see FIG. 4A);
- the different chromatic components of the same color image can be emitted in turn, which corresponds to a projection of purely sequential type. These different chromatic components can then succeed in one order or another.
- the green and blue components of the same color image are emitted in turn (in one order or another), while the red component is emitted during the emission of the blue and / or green component.
- the emission of the red component can take place during all or part of the emission duration of the blue and / or green component.
- the succession of said chromatic components can be controlled by control means, not shown, configured to control the successive display of the color components of a plurality of color images.
- the different chromatic components follow each other in particular according to a frequency / N components per second, corresponding to a scrolling of color images at a frequency of 3 * N frames per second in the purely sequential case, or 2 * N frames per second in the partially sequential case.
- N is generally equal to 50. It may be advantageous for the image quality (in particular to reduce the flicker) to increase this value of N to 100 or 200.
- the invention makes it possible to have access to such N values, thanks to the use of LED arrays with a very fast response time. Such values are not attainable with systems according to the prior art based on the use of micro-screens such as micro-LCD screens.
- the control means mentioned above will not be described here in more detail. Indeed, their implementation details do not present a difficulty for the skilled person, specialist sequential type of color display.
- the light intensity emitted by each LED is a function of the amplitude of its supply voltage.
- the control means are therefore configured to convert gray levels on the red component of a color image, into amplitude values of respective supply voltages, at the input of each LED of said second matrix.
- control means is configured to convert gray levels to LED power supply values, voltage and current being related.
- the amplitude of the supply voltage of an LED makes it possible to select an emission in blue or in green.
- the different values of light intensity required to obtain gray-scale images are then obtained by pulse width modulation, the eye being sensitive only to an average value of luminous intensity of the light signal. modulated emitted by each LED.
- the luminous intensity emitted by an LED is therefore a function of the ratio between a width of the voltage pulses and their repetition period, the amplitude of the pulses being fixed.
- this report is simply called “cyclical report”.
- amplitude refers to a maximum value of the signal, and not an average value, or an amplitude rms value.
- the magnitude value as defined herein is therefore not a function of the ratio of the width of the voltage pulses to their repetition period.
- the control means are therefore configured to convert gray levels on the green component, respectively blue, into respective cyclic ratio values of respective supply voltages, at the input of each LED of said first matrix.
- control means is configured to convert gray levels to LED power cycle duty cycle values, the voltage and current being related.
- Figure 5 schematically shows the first matrix display device 510, and control means 550 thereof, said first control means.
- These first control means 550 belong to the control means mentioned above.
- each unit 552 converts a continuous signal to the value U1 (respectively U2) into an alternating signal, preferably rectangular, alternating between the value U1 and a value less than U1, preferably the value zero (respectively between the value U2. and a value less than U2, preferably zero).
- LED drivers relevant to the invention, an active matrix of LEDs comprising, in known manner, many other connections for the addressing of LEDs.
- FIGS. 6A and 6B illustrate a second embodiment of an image projection system 600 according to the invention.
- the system 600 will only be described for its differences with respect to the first embodiment of the invention.
- the system 600 is illustrated in Figure 6B.
- no projection lens has been shown at the output of the dichroic mirror 630, such a lens not being essential to the definition of the invention.
- the LEDs of the first LED array have only one type of quantum well, suitable for emission in the green. All quantum wells are associated with the same emission spectrum (at equal supply voltages, see below).
- each of these LEDs comprises alternately GaN and InGaN layers of layers forming quantum wells for charge carriers.
- the indium concentration in InGaN layers has a value suitable for emission in green.
- each of these LEDs is adapted to emit in turn the blue component and the green component of a color image.
- FIG. 6A illustrates the emission spectra of an LED of the first matrix display device 610, for a first supply voltage (spectrum 61) and for a second supply voltage of much greater amplitude (spectrum 62). .
- this spectrum may have additional peaks, not exploited by the image projection system, located outside the visible spectrum and near ultraviolet.
- the spectrum 61 is monochromatic, and corresponds to a monochromatic emission in the green.
- the spectrum 62 also has an emission peak in the green.
- This peak emission, marginal, can be removed simply by optimizing the LEDs of the first matrix display device 610.
- a spectral filter described hereinafter, is used to obtain the emission of a monochromatic signal in blue.
- the first supply voltage (associated with the emission in green) is strictly lower than the second supply voltage (associated with the emission in blue).
- the difference between these two voltages must be high, for example greater than 2 V.
- the first supply voltage is 4 V
- the second supply voltage is 6.5 V.
- the system 600 here comprises a spectral filter 660, configured to: let pass wavelengths between 440 nm and 500 nm (blue), and block wavelengths between 510 nm and 570 nm (green), when the first matrix display device 610 emits in blue and green (high value of the supply voltage); and
- the filter 660 is therefore advantageously a wavelength tunable filter whose filtering characteristics depend on an electrical control signal.
- a wavelength tunable filter gives access to very high switching speeds, compatible with a chromatic component succession frequency, for a color video projection.
- the filter 660 is positioned on the optical path of the light signal emitted by the first matrix display device 610, preferably between this device 610 and the dichroic mirror 630.
- the control of the wavelength-tunable filter 660 and the control of the LEDs are synchronized together by synchronization means, not shown.
- the first matrix display device 610 makes it possible to obtain in turn a monochromatic signal in blue, corresponding to the blue chromatic component of a color image, and a monochromatic signal in green, corresponding to the green color component of a color image.
- the spectral filter 660 comprises a filter wheel comprising two regions.
- a first region has a spectral filter that passes blue and blocks green.
- a second region is transparent, without a spectral filter.
- the rotation of the filter wheel is synchronized with the LED control of the first matrix display device 610.
- the second embodiment of the invention provides easier fabrication than the first embodiment (only one type of quantum wells in the first pixel matrix), but a smaller electro-optical efficiency (need higher power to get an emission in the blue).
- the emissive display matrix devices may each consist of other types of light-emitting diodes than the examples cited.
- a filter as described above may be combined with the first embodiment of the invention, when the excitation of one type of quantum wells causes excitation of the other type of quantum well, in the first LED array.
- a non-filter variant of the second embodiment of the invention can be implemented when the blue frequency offset is accompanied by a significant reduction in the amplitude of the emission peak in the second embodiment of the invention. green.
- the invention may also use another spectral decomposition than the red, blue and green primary color decomposition.
- the invention finds advantageous applications in the field of compact projectors, and head-up displays (or HUD for English "Head up display”).
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